as in corpse
a dead body medical students who train by using cadavers

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Recent Examples of cadaver Despite an exhaustive search using drones, cadaver dogs and divers, authorities have never found Delphine's body or any other forensic evidence, The Times of London reports. Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025 Drones and cadaver dogs helped locate the remains, the outlet noted. Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025 The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025 After searches with cadaver dogs and tracking of electronic records, there were answers in the weeks that followed. Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cadaver
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corpse
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  • Alongside using the corpses to create furniture for his house, Ed also began constructing a skin suit of a woman made from human remains of at least 15 women, per A&E.
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Ed Gein, who became infamous for crimes committed in rural Plainfield, Wisconsin, admitted to the killing of two women and stealing corpses from graves.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Cadaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadaver. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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